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Research Powerhouses, Working Together

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Other cities host more than one research university. But only in Pittsburgh are
two such institutions literally footsteps apart: Pitt and Carnegie Mellon
University.

"If you think of Oakland as sort of one campus, there
are very few if any peer campuses in the world—maybe Harvard and MIT,"
said Don Smith, president of the Regional Industrial Development
Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interview.

The large and growing number of Pitt-Carnegie Mellon collaborations
includes the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, the Quality
of Life Technology Center, and the Science of Learning Institute, among
others. In 2005, Pitt and Carnegie Mellon joined with West Virginia
University, Penn
State, and Virginia Tech on a joint project with the U.S. Department of
Energy to
further research into energy and environmental technology.